#enthused — Public Fediverse posts

It's #NetLabelDay! Here's to all the #weird #obscure #obsessive #enthused #effusive #outsider #indie #unheard passion projects and all other #music that exists online outside the corporate sales-pitch panopticon AI Amazong Boogle hellscape.

I've had an almighty shittery of a year thus far being sick or recovering 4 out of 6 months, so I haven't prepared anything special this time round - which is a shame, as 2025 marks the 25th year I've run a #Netlabel. A potted history follows, for the two of you out there who are interested in such things!

Starting in 1999 I cobbled together what would now be called a netlabel which I called Novy Mir (after a combo of the samizdat adjacent Russian experimental magazine & the British new wave SF mag New Worlds), with a lot of help from Michael Moorcock and a little bit of Hawkwind-adjacency, I released ten or so albums on tape, a couple of CDs and attempted to make downloads work on dialup (failing on the latter). Later, 2010ish I formed Flamedog Records with Orlando Allen (lots of Gong family, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth etc). This time with full independent self-hosted paid downloads (as opposed to Bandcramp, Spitifiy etc). In 2018, from the ashes of burnout and mental anguish I set up my third and hopefully final label Tryptophonic Records, which exists to this day. All downloads free, #CreativeCommons and "pay if you like".

So there you go. I recently released a #psychedelic #ambient #drone album entitled Longmeadow under the moniker of jlmxv, which is a collab between myself and @jlm - free to download at https://tryptophonic.com/longmeadow/